Dream Quote by Rebecca Solnit

History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and…

— Marsha P. Johnson

“Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is…

— Yann Martel

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory…

— Salman Rushdie

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

— George W. Bush

We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae…

— Masha Gessen

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

— Hilary Mantel

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

— Thomas Jefferson

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

— Agnes Repplier

It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't…

— David Lowery

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

— Patrick Henry